“I Won’t Learn From You” And Other Thoughts On Creative Maladjustment

Part I of Essay
, by Herbert Kohl, is a collection of five inspirational and optomistic essays, which are at the forefront of current thinking on urban education. While the main focus of Kohl’s book is creative maladjustment, each of the five essays follows its own theme. They include th ....

Part II of Essay
.... and readjusting the world one lives in based on personal integrity and honesty.” The concept of not-learning, being something that can be learned is an interesting phenomenon to me that is explored by Kohl in the title essay of his book. Sometimes a teacher may mistake a student for having a learning disability or a behavior problem, when rather the child is actually making a conscious choice to “not learn” certain values or morally unfavorable material that is being imposed on them. In Kohl’s own words, “To agree to learn from a stran ....